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I've flown into Hong Kong many times. The old airport was a bit hairy but the new one isn't bad at all. I tell you, one of my least favorites is San Diego. Steep descent due to the high rise buildings on the approach. Once you touch down, they are heavy on the back thrusters and brakes. I was sitting by a retired commercial pilot one trip and he told me that the pilot's association consider San Diego the worse airport in the United States to fly into. He said that there is really no safe way to land there.
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need help replacing headset plugin.
Freebird replied to sause1963's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
I don't remeimber for sure either but I THINK it has a plug. I don't know what they are asking for the parts but you may find one off a wrecked bike. This has much more than you need but you could get the parts from it. http://www.ebay.com/itm/02-Yamaha-Venture-Royal-Star-XVZ1300-REAR-SPEAKERS-/130601875909?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr&hash=item1e687a79c5 -
Are you SURE you got no response to your question about the handlebars? Here is your original post and what looks like a pretty good answer. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=66522 Here is your post about the jack and there was an answer to it also. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=66601
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You are apparently more of an expert than I am. I didn't know you could change out the anodes. I know that they should be flushed a couple of times a year. This one hasn't been flushed since....well....this one has NEVER been flushed. I'm thinking that KNOWING what to do but never actually DOING it may have contributed to this little issue.
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Yes, I still drive the mini van and also have a small trailer. I will certainly be installing it myself so if you can save me some bucks, that would be GREAT. There is no rush, I have this one flushed out pretty well for now. I know it won't be long though.
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You folks must live in the sticks. I have my water delivered HOT...just not hot enough so that I why I need a hot water heater. OK....I just made all of that up but I didn't know how else to cover my error. I KNEW that some folks would recommend a tankless or demand type heater. I tried to prevent it by stating in my first post that there is NOT an electric heater that is really suitable for replacing an 80 GPM tank. Didn't work though. My house is almost all electric. The only thing that runs on propane is the emergency heat when it is too cold for the heat pump to work. I really hate propane. If I could get natural gas, I would consider changing over to a gas heater but I'm not interested in installing one that runs on propane.
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Looks like it is getting close to time to replace the hot water heater. It is still heating just fine but apparently is full of mineral deposits, rust, etc. My wife notice last weekend that the hot water was muddy looking. I've lost count of how many times I've drained and flushed and drained and flushed and drained and flushed. It take forever even though I replace the drain valve with a straight through ball valve. Even with the ball valve installed and the vent opened, it takes a long time to flush. I've actually got it running fairly clear now but still no perfect and I think I will need to replace it soon. It is about 17 years old. This is an 80 gallon AO Smith electric heater. I've been looking around and have somewhat narrowed it down to a Whirlpool 80 gallon and a GE 80 gallon. The Whirlpool has dual 4500 watt elements and a 12 year warranty. Top and bottom elements are stainless steel. The GE has dual 5500 watt elements but only the top one is stainless steel for some reason. They both have 12 year warranties. All that I have looked at have 4500 watt elements except for the GE. The Whirlpool is $619.00 and the GE is $729.00. I'm leaning towards the Whirlpool even though the GE has higher wattage elements. I've never had a problem with running out of hot water so really don't know that the bigger elements are a big deal. They both have high energy factors, about 92 I think. A tankless heater is not an option for me. There just aren't any electric tankless heaters that are equivalent to an 80 gallon tank. The closest I have found was rated about the same as a 40 gallon tank. So, I KNOW we have people here who are experts in just about anything that we have questions about. What say you?
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Marca's dad
Freebird replied to Marcarl's topic in Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer Requests, Etc.
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Tightening the gas cap until it clicks is important. I had a LOT of customers come in a few years ago when I worked for a local Chevrolet/Olds dealership. On newer cars, the problem 99% of the time was that they were not tightening the gas cap until it started clicking. I always turning it until it clicked a few times, maybe another 1/4 turn or so just to be sure. Now last winter my company car, a 2007 Dodge Caravan, had the check engine light on. It went off a couple of times but stayed on most of the time through the winter. When spring came and it warmed up outside, it went off and has not come on since. I don't know if it had anything to do with winter or if it was just a coincidence that it cleared up. I thought at the time that it may have had something to do with the re-formulated winter gas but I don't know. I never did get the codes read.
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Have you re-jetted? You can typically change the mufflers without needing to re-jet but once you installed that big air kit, you changed the entire game. I'm almost 100% sure that if you want to run the big air kit and the free flowing mufflers, you are going to need to change those jets. Oops...I read it again and see that you removed the air kit. Jetting is not likely your problem unless the air intake has been modified in some way or another. If you have done anything to increase the air flow, that is still the first place I would start. Also check to make sure that there were no leaks created when they re-installed the stock air box and filters.
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I think the members map went away long ago. The site that was being used was discontinued and we never started another one.
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I know that the dry ice method will work on automobiles and that is basically the same thing that you are talking about. I've heard that it is usually not effective on motorcycles though because the steel is a much heavier gauge. I certainly don't think you would lose anything by trying it but I wouldn't get my hopes up.
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Look under "tools", "options" and the "privacy" tab. Make sure that "remember history" is checked.
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Stebel/bad boy horn mounting in left side
Freebird replied to djh3's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
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Jim, What browser are you using? I may be able to offer more specific help if I know that.
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mFkDJ0rpWA]100 Motorcycle Crashes - YouTube[/ame]
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Thanks, that is good to know. It should actually work with any device that can access standard .html pages. It's a good alternative to any device without flash or with a smaller screen.
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Some of you have had problems for a long time with uploading your photos to the classifieds. If your pictures were too large, the ad would simply fail to post and give no indication as to WHY it didn't work. I have been working on that issue tonight and I think it will be much better now. First of all, if a picture is too large then it should automatically re-size them to fit. If your picture is HUGE...meaning 2 MB or something like that, it may still fail but should at least give you an error message now letting you know WHY it failed. I hope that this will make it easier for all who have had a problem. It is still best to re-size your pictures to no larger than 640 x 480 and no more than 200,000 bytes before you upload them.
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You just HAVE to don't you.
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I think you said before that you are using an Android? I have no way of testing it because I don't have one. When I go to that link with my Iphone, I get the login screen. After I login, I get a drop down menu of the three rooms available.
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For those of you who were looking for a solution to use the VRChat Room from your Iphones, Ipads, Androids, you can now do so at this link. The Iphone does not use flash so this is a html version of the room that then communicates with the Flash based chat room. I briefly tried it from my Iphone and it seems to work just fine. It is a streamlined version that does not have all the features available but does allow you to chat. Please give it a try. If it works OK, I will add a link to it in the menu bar. http://host718.123flashchat.com/venturerider/html-chat-login.html
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I am not going to get into the politics of all this. I will say that I agree that SOPA is a very badly written law that can do much harm to the internet as we know it. That being said, it amazes me this morning about all the uproar over WIkipedia being down for 24 hours. All the news channels making a such a big deal out of it and suggesting other sources of information for those that can't get through a day without Wikipedia. Come on folks...what the heck. I use Wikipedia and find it to be a useful source of info even if not always 100% accurate. I can assure you though that it being down for 24 hours or a week or forever is not going to have a severe impact on my life. I understand why they are doing what they are doing and I have no problem with it. I just don't understand why some are acting like it is the end of the world for people who can't access it for a day.
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and I just did some checking and found that I am completely wrong that the chat will not work on the Iphone. Haven't tried it through the standard Iphone browser but will do some checking and report back.
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Skid, I'm not 100% sure but I don't think that there is any application that would enable the chat room on the Iphone due to the fact that Apple does not support flash. Our chat room is a flash based application.